Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) offers data center managers countless benefits as it brings facilities and IT together to achieve increased availability, efficiency, and cost savings. Access this white paper to discover what components make up an enterprise-grade DCIM strategy and what to look for in a DCIM vendor. 

Read this enlightening paper featuring research from IDC to learn more on the growing trend of predictive analytics, including how it differs from non-predictive business analytics projects. Also discover some of the changes in IDC research over the past eight years as well as some of the additional benefits from predictive analytics projects. 

Learn about how Psomas, a leading consulting engineering firm, overcame challenges with its legacy disaster recovery and backup strategy. Upon implementing Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateway, the company was able to cut tape infrastructure costs by 60%, speed restore times, and improve nearly every aspect of its DR and backup strategy. 

<p>Gary Chen, IDC Research Manager for Enterprise Virtualization Software, outlines virtualization interoperability challenges and key market trends shaping its future. Learn about Red Hat's role in the development of enterprise virtualization technology, new features found in RHEV 3.0, and the next wave in enterprise virtualization―the cloud.</p> 

This IDC Forecast Update provides a 5-year forecast for the worldwide PBBA market as part of IDC's Storage Solutions coverage. The 5-year forecast includes total factory revenue and raw capacity in terabytes through 2015. The worldwide PBBA market covers both open system– and mainframe-attached products. Read now to learn more. 

<p>Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction. </p> 

This white paper explores service-oriented architecture's (SOA’s) relationship with and relevance to IT and business. Recent survey-based research and IDC’s top-line forecast for SOA are presented in this paper and help communicate the value, opportunities and challenges associated with SOA. 

This IDC Forecast Update provides share positions for revenue and raw capacity for 9 named Purpose-Built Backup Appliance vendors for the first half of 2011. In addition, this study provides the market  size  and  a  5-year  forecast  for  the  worldwide PBBA market  as  part  of IDC's  Storage  Solutions  coverage. Read now to learn more. 

Explore the results of this IDC business value study of 11 customers using Quantum deduplication solutions and see if an investment in dedupe might benefit your company today. 

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. 

Learn twelve criteria to help you identify and select an ERP solution that fits your business needs. Find the right ERP provider that will help you implement quickly and achieve business objectives. 

The key to achieving cost-effective savings in the supply chain is to exchange information accurately and quickly in real-time. 

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Contact Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is complicated. Here are six simple steps to take to manage that complexity.